Héritage forms Priority Advisory Groups

The Héritage project is a 10-year initiative to digitize, preserve, and make accessible online roughly 40 million pages of Canadian archival microfilm. To maintain a high standards of integrity and usability, each stage of the project will be guided and reviewed by special committees formed of librarians, archivists, and distinguished scholars in the field.

Priority Advisory Groups

Making these archival records conveniently searchable online requires description, transcription and metadata creation for the series and page images. To direct and prioritize these efforts, Priority Advisory Groups will gather input from a broad a base of stakeholders, including librarians, academics, genealogists and the public.

The Priority Advisory Groups will have an ongoing mandate during the 10-year project. It is understood that membership will change over that time.

Membership

The following distinguished scholars and archivists were selected for the Priority Advisory Group from candidate pools nominated by the national and provincial stakeholders: